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Stumbling over a Stolperstein while showing your German city to friends from the US, and explaining its meaning, then watching the horror on their faces grow as they continue to stumble over Stolperstein after Stolperstein in the streets we walk together. 🧵

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🧵 This made me realise once again the quiet, haunting power of the Stolpersteine to make the past visible. They remind us that each person represented by one once lived at the heart of a community, before disappearing not into something abstract or statistical, but from real doorsteps, real lives and real streets that we still walk on and were killed by the very system that governed those streets. 🧵

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🧵 I don't wanna tell my friends to remember the names and houses of those who disappear. I wanna tell them not to let this happen, but they already know. They are my friends.
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something that really struck me was when I realised they exist all over Europe, not only in Germany.
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The most irritating thing when I worked on this project for my hometown was, that some people actually had problems with the stones. Store owners were afraid of retribution, others didn't want them in front of their house, and in one case there was even a discussion because people were good friends with the son of an active Nazi and didn't want to confront him with a stone. This made me furious.

All in all it was worthwile. I learned a lot about my town and at least I had the chance to talk to survivors and their families. A few years back a woman from Israel contacted me because she found her fathers stone online and she decided to visit her family's hometown.

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